When I try to arm audio tracks for recording in Live 8, I get a message that says:

"The file "0001 1-Audio.wav" could not be opened."

After this, the red "armed" light does not light up, and will not light up if pressed again.

There have been other occasions when the track does arm correctly, but once I try to record, Live tells me that "a serious error has occurred" and shuts down.

Things I have tried so far:
1. I restarted Live, my computer, and my audio interface several times.
2. I upgraded my Live (from 8.0 to 8.1.1). The errors happened both before and after the upgrade.
3. The recording source does not matter: the same errors happen whether ReWiring with Reason, recording an external synth, or recording internally (sending one track in Live to another).

This has been happening only for the past day, and I did not install any new software or hardware in that time.

I am stuck so far. Any ideas what might be going wrong?

[I also posted this on Ableton's support forum.]

Last edited by MrJiveBoJingles on Mar-16-2010 at 23:55

Also, forgot to add that recording still works perfectly with Audacity, so this appears to be a Live problem rather than a general audio / recording problem.

i get errors like this when i save projects with rerenders. say you record one thing, delete it from the track and then re-record. Ableton stored your original wav file incase you wanted to Crtl + Z ur delete. however since it's not in the project anymore the next render sometimes doesn't get autonamed AUDIO FILE 2. i haven't seen this error since i brought it up in live 6/7 but the work around should be:

File - > Manage Files -> Manage Project -> unused samples (right click show in browser). delete the file that's giving you the error

Still no go.

The file manager showed no unused files in the project. So I looked in the actual directory on my C drive and there were a bunch of temp folders, so I deleted those. Still getting the same error, though.

Wait, it seems to be working now, LOL.

It gave me an error the first try and then started working once I tried again with a new audio track. Weird.

Hopefully it will be good from now on. Thanks for the tip.

Hmm, seems to be screwing up once again, even with no files in the temp folders at all.

[Edit: but sometimes it still works. It seems to just work a third of the time and not work two thirds of the time, seemingly at random. Really frustrating.]

Delete the preferences.cfg file and whatever, clear your cache in the preferences menu... Delete everything from the cache folder manually. Assign the cache to a new folder.

If that doesn't work, contact ableton support.

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